Advocacy

Our goal is to raise our collective voice in support of the aging population in New Hampshire, promoting a strong, stable infrastructure for healthy aging.

Thanks to dramatic advances in medicine, public health, and lifestyle choices, nearly half of children born today can expect to live to 100. As more of us live longer, healthier lives, New Hampshire faces a powerful opportunity to rethink the future of our communities.

However, despite the burgeoning growth of our state’s older population, NH does not yet have a strong or cohesive advocacy infrastructure in place for older adults. So many of us continue to have so much to offer as we age, but many of our current policies, structures, and cultural assumptions fail to take advantage of the new realities of an older Granite State. Such an infrastructure is needed to successfully make New Hampshire a community that supports its’ older citizens.

The New Hampshire Alliance for Healthy Aging (NHAHA) has been working since 2014 to prepare communities to create an even better, even older New Hampshire. By pulling together service organizations, state agencies, policymakers, advocates and older people themselves, NHAHA is building an infrastructure that can adapt to the needs and incorporate the strengths of NH citizens.

We need your help to continue this momentum. Together we must roll up our sleeves and imagine new ways to think and act and new ways to shape the places in which we live.

Effective advocacy helps inform and educate policymakers, allows individuals to have their voices heard, builds stronger communities, and allows people to live more fulfilling lives. Together we can make NH a great place to grow up and to grow old!

The NH Alliance for Healthy Aging (NH AHA) is a statewide coalition of stakeholders focused on the health and well-being of older adults in New Hampshire. NH AHA works to promote its shared vision to create communities in New Hampshire that advance culture, policies and services which support older adults and their families.